Section: News & Summaries

Russia in 2016 ranked third globally in terms of military spending, displacing Saudi Arabia from the TOP 3, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Novoye Vremya reports. Total military spending worldwide rose by 0.4% in 2016 from 2015, to $1.69 trillion, the report said, according to Novoye Vremya....

Ukraine`s Deposit Guarantee Fund has introduced interim administration at Kyiv-based Diamantbank after the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) declared the bank insolvent. The administration headed by Tetiana Startseva will work for a month until May 23 inclusively, the Fund said on its website. Introducing the interim administration is the first...

U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed by phone a peaceful solution of the Donbas conflict, according to the White House. ”The President also reaffirmed our support for German- and French-led efforts to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Ukraine on the basis of the Minsk agreements,” the...

Residential quarters of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Maryinka in Donbas, Ukraine`s east, have come under fire when Russia`s hybrid forces mounted an attack on Ukrainian troops stationed near the town on Monday evening, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. ”Houses are reported to have been damaged....

Russia`s hybrid military forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 34 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action (KIA) and two as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. View map in full size In the Donetsk sector, the enemy fired...

Head of Information Resistance Group, military analyst and MP Dmytro Tymchuk published on Facebook a chronology of events on Sunday, following an explosion on a mine of an OSCE SMM patrol vehicle near the village of Pryshyb in the militant-controlled area of Luhansk region. According to Information Resistance, the course of events goes as...

Qatar Airways has announced it will launch flights to Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2018, according to the company`s press service. ”Qatar Airways will open 12 new destinations in 2018: San Francisco (the United States), Cardiff (Wales), U-Tapao (Thailand), Chittagong (Bangladesh), Mykonos (Greece), Malaga (Spain), Accra (Ghana), Lisbon Portugal), Abidjan...

Western partners of Russian gas giant Gazprom agreed on Monday on financing the 9.5-billion euro Nord Stream 2 pipeline, removing a key hurdle for the Russian plan to pump more gas to Europe, according to Reuters. At a signing ceremony in Paris, Uniper, Wintershall, Shell, OMV and Engie agreed to each loan 10 percent of the cost of the venture,...

Lugansk Energy Association (LEA) plans to shut down power supplies to the occupied part of Luhansk region starting April 25, LEA CEO Volodymyr Gritsai told Luhansk regional TV channel, according to Liga.net. ”We have received documents from state-owned enterprise Energorynok, which are confirmed by documents from the Energy and Coal Industry...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson phoned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday to discuss his recent trip to Moscow and his message to the Russian leadership, the U.S. Department of State said in a press release. Although the United States is interested in improving relations with Russia, Russia`s actions in eastern Ukraine remain an...